FWIW, I had someone tell me the other day that: + He had four 36GB drives in a RAID5 array (total: 108GB) + He was running it as a single large partition + He could pull one drive, and make it a 72GB array, and the drive controller would handle it all + The filesystem required no modifications. I kid you not.Seen that before yes.I told him to show me, because I wanted to be around when he told the RAID controller to reconfigure the array on the production machine. *evil grin*Sorry man, it will work.
Not sure where Eddie gets his information, but I have a Penguin Dual 800Mhz Pentium IIIs with FOUR 36 gig LVD 15,000 rpm ultra wide scsi drives with a RAID 5 configuration using a Mylex raid controller. It also has 4 GIGs of RAM, and it runs like a champ with a single partition. Greased lightning.
Maybe he's talking about IDE RAIDs ;-) -- - James Dean Young www.sundream.com jd@xxxxxxxxxxxx"Sometimes you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"
- Robert Hunter